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...than 81 million CDs, tapes and albums last year, compared with 72 million for country. Rap sales increased a stunning 31% from 1997 to 1998, in contrast to 2% gains for country, 6% for rock and 9% for the music industry overall. Boasts rapper Jay-Z, whose current album, Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life (Def Jam), has sold more than 3 million copies: "Hip-hop is the rebellious voice of the youth. It's what people want to hear...
...CUBE WAR & PEACE VOL. 1 (THE WAR DISC) [rating: 3 musical notes] PREVIOUS ALBUM Lethal Injection, 1993 COPIES SOLD 1.7 million...
First, let us address alcoholism, the most blatant and debilitating of your habits. It grieves us to see how chemically dependent you have become, and how you encourage (some underage) vulnerable college students to partake in your sinful routine. Something must be done immediately to stop this Martini Madness [vol. 10, no.1]. From beer-gulping Hashers to "getting blitzo" HOC-weekend bar hopping, to the proffered cocktail recipes of A Tradition of Remarkable Drinking the evidence of your debauchery, as it were, is manifold [vol.10,no.2,4,6 respectively]. At least you've overcome denial but it seems that...
...MARSALIS (1961- ) A master soloist and bandleader and a Pulitzer prizewinning composer, Marsalis has championed Neo-Traditionalism. Committed to the belief that the style created in the years between Armstrong and Davis is America's true classical music, he cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center. His seminal album, Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987), treats works by Ellington and Parker with passionate devotion...
...hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards album since 1991 (despite the title, it's only his fourth overall). After ambitious but sometimes strained projects like last year's 3-CD recording of his Pulitzer-prizewinning oratorio, Blood on the Fields, and a jazz reworking of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat...